While it is certainly true that the angler's physical size confers some advantage with regard to achieving a long cast, most surf casts will be well short of the distances (500 to 600 feet) reached by professional casters in tournaments.

Verily the man must feel as though he were in a dream; only a short time before, at a shoemaker's ordinary work, the knocking of his hammer mingling with the sighs of a sick wife, and now, fascine knife on hip, helmet on closely cropped head, officers’ commands in ear, crowds of people, drums, music, and the shrill whistle of the locomotive!—to march far away to Bohemia […]

“Timberlake,” it wrote,” is the most cornified and harmless of pop stars […] ”

When your so-called friends try to smear your name with their backstabbing and kniving games, look them straight in their eyes and say, I know who I am.